Past Grant Recipients

2014

Evergreen – $90,000Move the GTHA Phase II: Continued delivery of backbone resources to support a cross-sector collaboration which promotes the need for increased public investment in regional transportation infrastructure.

Evergreen – $20,000Tower Renewal Showcase: Concept development proposal to develop costing scenarios and a detailed business case for using infill developments to finance tower retrofits.

Pembina Institute – $76,200Location Efficient Development: Development of a strategy to promote location-efficient development in the Greater Toronto Area.

Environmental Defence – $300,000Ontario and the Clean Economy: Development and implementation of a bold provincial climate change strategy to support Ontario’s 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Project Neutral – $15,000Measuring and Strengthening the Impact of PN’s Neighbourhood Climate Action Model: Design of an evaluation strategy to assess the greenhouse gas impact of Project Neutral’s work and develop clear metrics to inform its future interventions.

2013

City of Toronto – Environment and Energy Division – $200,000Live Green Toronto EcoEnergy Pilot: This three-year pilot will target 1,000 single-family homes and 100 multi-unit buildings to undertake energy retrofits using a new property-attached financing mechanism (Local Improvement Charges, or LIC) that will use a City-managed revolving loan fund to finance approved home retrofits with repayments made via property tax bills.

Toronto Centre for Active Transportation – $10,000Dedicated Investment in Active Transportation: Preliminary research and outreach to consider ways to provide dedicated investment in active transportation infrastructure in the GTA.

2012

Ryerson University Centre for Urban Energy – $138,000Combined Building Integrated Solar and Heat Pump Technology for Net-Zero Buildings: Testing of an innovative solar technology to mitigate the cold weather performance challenges of air source heat pumps with the goal of developing a net-zero heating/cooling solution for homes in Toronto.

Tower Labs @ MaRS – $70,000Green Building Innovation Enterprise Grant Pilot: Identification, implementation and evaluation of emission reduction technologies in multi-unit residential buildings and establishment of financing agreements to allow return on investment to TAF should the technology become profitable when scaled up.

Evergreen – $100,000Development of Move the GTHA: Implementation of an urban social innovation lab to support cross-sector collaborations with the goal of building multi-stakeholder support for investments in regional transit.

Pembina Institute – $100,000Reducing Urban Freight Emissions in Toronto: Identification of best practices and policy and program recommendations for reducing urban freight emissions along with presentation of these findings to key stakeholders via a thought-leaders forum.

2011

City of Toronto – Toronto Public Health – $25,000ChemTRAC Pollution Prevention Pilot: Working with Toronto’s business community to identify their needs and develop the business case for air quality improvements and pilot test approaches for reducing key air contaminants in Toronto.

City of Toronto – Transportation Services – $65,000Electric Vehicle Charging Station Pilot for City “Right-of-Way” Scenarios: Procurement and installation of up to six electric vehicle charge stations in Toronto in order to develop the business case alongside the required City policies/protocols in support of public charge stations in Toronto.

Summerhill Impact – $150,000Reducing Personal Transportation through Market Incentives (Shuttle): Pilot testing of a project to better understand how Torontonians commute and how they might be encouraged to reduce their fuel consumption via in-vehicle monitoring, driver training and market-based incentives.

Toronto & Region Conservation Authority – $40,000Geothermal Assessment & Best Practices Development for Urban Areas: Research to capture independently-verified data from existing geothermal systems in the Greater Toronto Area to inform a best practices guide on procurement, siting, installation and commissioning of these systems in urban areas.

York University – $35,000Research on Renewable Energy Charge Stations for Electric Vehicles: Analysis of practical data on the environmental and business case for building and operating standardized renewable energy charging stations to complement electric vehicles in Toronto.

City of Toronto – Renewable Energy Office – $25,000Use of Urban Forestry Resources as Biomass: Identification of the GHG reduction potential and costs savings associated with using waste wood resources to replace natural gas as a heating fuel in select City facilities.

Evergreen – $10,000Concept Development for a Green Innovation Lab: Research on best practices for the creation of an innovation lab at Evergreen Brick Works to bring together diverse stakeholders to advance climate solutions.

MaRS Discovery District – $10,000Community Engagement for the ClimateSpark Social Venture Challenge: Recruitment, engagement and advisory support for investors and social venture project proponents who will be participating in the ClimateSpark Social Venture Challenge.

Pollution Probe – $20,000Electric Mobility Adoption and Prediction (EMAP) Project: A research project to inform and advance the deployment of electric vehicles in Toronto by mapping the location of early adopter communities and assessing the readiness of the local power services in these communities.

University of Toronto – Department of Civil Engineering – $25,000Energy Study of Toronto Multi-Unit Residential Buildings: Collection and analysis of energy performance data from more than 100 buildings in Toronto to develop public policies for energy retrofits and provide a publicly available source of information on the energy performance expectations for various building archetypes.

2010

Centre for Social Innovation – $57,300Community Bonds: Empowering Community Finance: Documentation and promotion of the use of community bonds to finance energy efficiency retrofits in community buildings.